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hop⋅per

  [hop-er]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that hops.
2. Informal. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.
3. any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
4. Australian. kangaroo.
5. a funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
6. Railroads. hopper car.
7. U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
8. one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
—Idiom
9. in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.
Origin:
1200–50; ME; see hop 1 , -er 1

Hop⋅per

  [hop-er]
–noun
1. Edward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
2. Grace Murray, 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.
3. (William) De Wolf  [duh-woolf] , 1858–1935, U.S. actor.
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hop·per   (hŏp'ər)   
n.  
  1. One that hops.
    1. A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation.
    2. A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded.
    3. A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature.
    4. Informal A place in which something is held in readiness: a studio with many potential blockbusters in the hopper.

[Sense 2, from the shaking or hopping motion of grain hoppers as grain passed through them to the mill.]
Hop·per   (hŏp'ər)   
American painter famous for his stark, realist style. Among his best-known works are Early Sunday Morning (1930) and Nighthawks (1942).
Hopper, Grace Murray 1906-1992.  
American mathematician and computer programmer. Noted for her development of programming languages, especially COBOL, she is credited with inventing the first compiler.
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Hopper

Hop"per\, n. [See 1st Hop.]

1. One who, or that which, hops.

2. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

3. (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.

4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. --Johnson.

5. (Zo["o]l.) (a) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. (b) The larva of a cheese fly.

6. (Naut.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.

Bell and hopper (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained.

Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and to draw it over an opening in the floor, through which it falls.

Hopper closet, a water-closet, without a movable pan, in which the receptacle is a funnel standing on a draintrap.

Hopper cock, a faucet or valve for flushing the hopper of a water-closet.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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hopper 
"container with narrow opening at bottom," 1277, perhaps from hop (v.) via notion of grain juggling in a mill hopper.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Hopper   (hŏp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL.
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